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Pat Mitchell moderates panel with the amazing Helen Thomas, Courtney Martin, Charreah Jackson, Liza Donnelly, and Jensine Larsen.
One of my fave quotes was when Mitchell asks Thomas where she asks her, “You’ve covered presidents from Kennedy to Obama. Who has worked the hardest for women’s rights?”“None of them.” *Commence standing ovation.*
(She actually clarified that while presidents have done work to improve the status of women, none of them have really put themselves on the line for women’s rights.)
Least favorite quote of hers? “Everyone with a laptop thinks they’re a journalist.” (Referring to bloggers.) *Commence disappointment.*
A couple of other random Q&A’s after the jump.

How are you doing on using Essence to include your women’s voice? (Directed to Charreah)
“We’re constantly thinking about ways we can we be effective and empower our readers. Our most popular sections of the magazine are our relationships and money sections, so we try to focus on empowering our readers through including these issues in those areas…”What’s your media consumption? (Directed to all)
Donnelly’s: New York Times, Daily Beast, and the ones I work for. I read in paper and the web. I also use Twitter.
Martin’s: Mother Jones, podcasts, NPR, This American Life, Feministing readers’ emails give me news every day (woot!)
Thomas': Washington Post and the New York Times, The Nation, TIME, Newsweek, New York Magazine.

It’s that time again…the Omega Women & Power conference. So many amazing Feministing readers got scholarships last year and we were thrilled to get to know some of them over the course of the weekend. While the whole editorial crew won’t be going to this year’s conference up in Rhinebeck, we still wanted to make sure that our community knew about this awesome opportunity.
Scholarships include the full cost of the conference, accommodations, all meals, and transportation from New York, if needed. Scholarship applications are due June 1, 2010. Go here to apply.
The line-up this year is equally fierce as last year, including Sharon Salzberg, Anna Deavere Smith, Zainab Salbi, Luong Ung, and Manisha Thakor, among so ...

Sarah Jones, pretty much the most bad-ass woman playwright/performer/poet/activist of all time, loves Feministing. And we have the video to prove it. (Just another reason to love Omega’s conference – you get to meet the coolest women!)

Sarah Jones, pretty much the most bad-ass woman playwright/performer/poet/activist of all time, loves Feministing. And we have the video to prove it. (Just another reason to love Omega’s conference – you get to meet ...

The Fire This Time: Young Women and the Future of Feminism
Courtney Martin, our amazing Editor, writer and activist extraordinaire and Charreah Jackson, Associate Editor at Essence.com

The Personal is Still Political
Courtney:
Feminist upbringing: Feminist mom, founded the longest running women’s film festival in the world (Rocky Mtn Women’s Film Fest).
But I needed to reject this upbringing, because feminism was not cool in high school. I wasn’t owning my feminism yet.
I went to Barnard college–and was shocked by the unhealthiness around me. One of the things my parents thought me was to trust my outrage–that’s why I wrote Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters. Our mother’s told us we could do anything, and we decided we had ...

The Fire This Time: Young Women and the Future of Feminism
Courtney Martin, our amazing Editor, writer and activist extraordinaire and Charreah Jackson, Associate Editor at Essence.com

The Personal is Still Political
Courtney:
Feminist upbringing: Feminist ...